The latest uproar at the embattled United Nations exploded on Thursday, as Iran — a country that brutally oppresses women and just murdered thousands of its own citizens to thwart a popular uprising — was named vice-chair of the U.N. Commission for Social Development (CSocD), an agency whose purview includes women’s rights and democracy.
The Iranian government held rallies on Wednesday to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, in an obvious effort to demonstrate strength after massive protests threatened to topple the oppressive government last month. Controversy erupted when U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres allegedly wrote a letter to the president of Iran to congratulate him for the revolution that created the murderous regime in Tehran.
The rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will be assumed on January 1 by Somalia – a barely functional state that has exported thousands of “refugees” to the rest of the world, accompanied by crime waves and social distortions.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres responded to the murder of American and Israeli hostages by failing to name or condemn Hamas.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs notified the United Nations last week that one hundred “terrorist operatives” have been identified as employees of UNRWA, the U.N. relief agency for the Palestinians.
U.N. Watch filed a legal complaint over alleged financial and ethical misconduct by Hamas-sympathizing U.N. rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
Chinese state media rode to the rescue of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the U.N. relief operation for Palestinians that saw much of its international funding suspended after shocking revelations that many agency employees were members of terrorist organizations like Hamas and Islamic Jihad — and some directly participated in the October 7 atrocities against innocent Israeli civilians.
U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer on Monday dueled online against U.N. Special Rapporteur for Palestinian Human Rights Francesca Albanese over the latter’s expensive junket to Australia to attend an Israel-bashing conference on November 11.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) concluded its annual meeting on Tuesday with the astonishing spectacle of electing North Korea – among the world’s deadliest regimes, a psychopathic nuclear-armed dictatorship that routinely murders dissidents and has deliberately starved a sizable portion of its population – to a seat on the ten-member W.H.O. executive board.
A United Nations attorney who is leading an “neutral, third party” investigation into Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians was exposed as having a long history of antisemitism, spreading outright lies and conspiracy theories, including the canard that the U.S. is controlled by the “Jewish lobby.”
China was elected to the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) executive board on Friday, even though the Chinese gave false information to W.H.O. during the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, obstructed investigations into the origin of the coronavirus, and persecuted Chinese doctors who tried to raise early warnings about the plague that would ravage the world.
The rotating chairmanship of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament, the body that produced the landmark Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968, will pass on May 30 to the most dangerous and intransigent nuclear rogue nation in the world, North Korea.
Human rights activists are demanding the United Nations expel China, Cuba, Venezuela, and several other members of its Human Rights Council following the suspension of Russia’s membership on Thursday in light of their abysmal human rights records – in China’s case, including genocide.
The U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Friday voted to adopt six resolutions that singled out or condemned Israel, and zero on the rest of the world.
